Ex-con on parole for murder busted with ghost gun, drugs after evading NYC subway fare: cops
An ex-con on parole for a Delaware murder was busted with a loaded ghost gun and a slew of drugs when cops nabbed him for trying to slip through the emergency exit at a Bronx subway station during the Thursday evening rush, authorities and sources said.
Jermaine Greene, 42, of Mount Eden, was strolling into the Fordham Road 4 train station through the emergency exit around 5:40 p.m. when officers stopped him, cops said.
Greene — who had two active arrest warrants — was also found to be toting a 9mm Polymer80 ghost gun, loaded with a dozen live rounds, in his waistband, authorities said.
He was also carrying a clear zip-close bag holding a “large quantity” of crack cocaine, plus a scale meant for measuring the drugs, cops and sources said.
“When people question the value of fare evasion enforcement – look no further than THIS example,” NYPD Chief of Transit Michael Kemper said in a Friday post on X.
“A convicted murderer (on parole) was packing heat when he beat the subway fare yesterday. He apparently didn’t get the memo that the NYPD is hyper focused on transit safety. He also didn’t get the memo that law-abiding New Yorkers are fed up with open lawlessness at the turnstiles.”
Greene was slapped with multiple weapon possession-related charges, in addition to drug-related raps, a fare evasion offense and criminal trespass, cops said.
He has five prior arrests, including other drug-related busts, assault and robbery, cops and sources said.
He served four-and-half years behind bars — beginning in February of 1999 — on a Bronx robbery conviction, according to State Corrections records.
In August of 2003, he was released on parole, which expired in November of 2007, the records show.
No further details were immediately known on the Delaware murder — for which his parole will expire in April of 2026, according to the state DOC — or his active arrest warrants in the Big Apple.?
The arrest came days after the NYPD announced it would flood the subway system with 800 more cops to crack down on fare-evaders, with the department claiming the initiative stops violent crime.
In two other recent cases, alleged subway criminals used the emergency exit to enter the subway system, cops said.
Dajuan Robinson, 36 — who was repeatedly shot with his own gun after allegedly launching a violent rush hour fight on board an A train approaching the Hoyt-Schermerhorn station on March 14 — was previously caught on video entering the Nostrand Avenue station through the emergency gate.
A career criminal blasted two NYPD cops with Mace after they caught him red-handed trying to beat a subway fare through the emergency exit of an East Harlem subway station early Wednesday, authorities said.
And on March 20, Emmanuel Solcio, 57 — who has more than 20 prior arrests — snuck into the 6 subway station at East 116th Street and Lexington Avenue just after 3 a.m. — but was caught in the act by two on-duty officers, the NYPD said.
The officers spotted the offense and approached the man — who promptly whipped out a canister and sprayed Mace into the cops’ faces, police said.
“We’ve been vocal. The public’s been vocal,” Kemper wrote Friday. “Subway safety begins at the turnstiles, and our efforts to prevent disorder and lawlessness at the fare gates remains an important part of our overall public safety strategy.”
“Whether it’s good old-fashioned subway policing or the embrace of innovative technology, the NYPD will remain steadfast in keeping weapons and dangerous criminals out of our subways. New Yorkers deserve nothing less.”
